Events Detail

The Center for Global Food Issues recently held a conference on:

Food for the 21st Century: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
10:30AM – 1:30PM

               Goklany, Michaels, and Avery

              Nierenberg, Capper, and Avery

10:30 - 11:45AM: Is Biofuel a Pipedream?

Don't Inflate Food Prices Through Biofuels
Dennis Avery, Director, Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute

Click here for Avery's presentation

Diverting Millions of Acres From Farms and Forests for Cellulosic Ethanol

Indur Goklany, Assistant Director of Science and Technology, Department of the Interior and author of The Improving State of the World.

Why Renewables? Where's the Warming?
Dr. Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow Environmental Studies, Cato Institute and former Virginia State Climatologist. 

Click here for Dr. Michaels' presentation
 

Lunch Break 11:45AM -12:00PM

Second Panel 12:00 – 1:30PM: Can Hormones Really Help Save the Planet?

Why Friends of the Earth Should Applaud Big Pharma
Alex Avery, Director of Research, Center for Global Food Issues

Click here for Avery's presentation

Bovine Growth Hormone: More Milk, Smaller Eco-Footprint
Dr. Judith Capper, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell University

Intensive Animal Agriculture: Hurting Climate Change Efforts?
Danielle Nierenberg, Animal Agriculture and Climate Change Specialist, Humane Society of the U.S.

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
Hudson Institute
1015 15th St, NW, 6th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005